Apple’s iPhone X loses to Samsung’s Galaxy S9+ in speed test

The love-hate relationship between arch rivals, Apple and Samsung is known to everyone. Whenever one tech giant launches a smartphone, many of us wait for the other one to come up with a better one.

While Apple launched its premium flagship smartphone, iPhone X in November 2017, everyone was eagerly waiting for Samsung to launch its high-end smartphones, Galaxy S9 and S9+, which it did recently. So, who is the winner???

Although, Galaxy S9+ that is powered by Snapdragon 845 SoC is certainly faster than any Android phone but it cannot outperform the A11 bionic-powered iPhone from Apple, the iPhone X. However, in a speed test video put together by YouTube channel EverythingApplePro, the iPhone X has lost out to Galaxy S9+ purely in terms of performance.

Sleek design and Samsung Pay integration make the J7 Pro the company's best showing yet in the Galaxy J series.

Samsung has a long history of reusing components in its budget devices. It has done so to varying amounts of success in the past, and we've seen several models in the Galaxy J series running horribly outdated hardware. The Galaxy J lineup is now in its third generation, and Samsung is finally taking steps to address the issue.

Although the Galaxy J7 Pro is powered by the Exynos 7870 Octa —which made its debut in last year's J7 2016 — the company has rolled out updates in other areas — the phone has a 1080p panel, an all-new metallic chassis, 64GB of internal storage, Samsung Experience 8.1 UX based on Nougat, and Samsung Pay integration. The last point is crucial, as the J7 Pro is the first mid-range phone from Samsung to offer its digital payments service.

But is that enough to make the J7 Pro relevant in a segment that features the likes of the Redmi Note 4 and the Moto G5 Plus? Let's find out.

Samsung Galaxy j7 pro specification

Galaxy J7 Pro Hardware

Chinese manufacturers have been offering phones with all-metal designs for several generations now, but Samsung has been slow to incorporate it into its Galaxy J series. The J7 2016 featured a metal frame and a plastic back, and with the J7 Pro, we're finally getting an aluminum unibody design. And it looks great.

Apple products are not only hot selling items this holiday, they are also popular online buying tools

The first customer of the tablet iPad in an Apple Store in Amsterdam

Apple shares rose to the highest level this year as investors bet
products like the latest iPads and iPhones will be hot sellers this
holiday, helping the consumer technology giant kick-start earnings
growth again.

The stock climbed 1.9% to $556.07 Friday. Earlier in the day, it touched $594.59, a 2013 high.

Apple unveiled two new iPhones earlier this year and more recently launched the new iPad Air and an upgraded iPad mini.

The
iPad mini was among top sellers at Walmart on Thanksgiving, while
Target said the iPad Air was a hot item at its stores. On eBay.com, one
iPad was selling every second as of midnight on Thanksgiving.

"Apple
products should be the holiday gift of choice this year," said Brian
Marshall, an analyst at ISI Group. "The company has a great product
cycle currently, the stock is cheap and we expect $600 within the next
several months."

Apple gadgets are also popular shopping tools.
Mobile devices running on the company's iOS operating system --
basically iPads and iPhones -- made up more than a quarter of all online
traffic to major retail websites early on Black Friday. These devices
also accounted for 18% of all online sales in the period, according to
IBM Digital Analytics Benchmark.

Apple shares have lagged
technology sector rivals and the broader stock market this year on
concern about a lack of earnings growth and a slim pipeline of new
products.

However, investors have recently become more confident
that earnings growth will resume in 2014, according to Walter Piecyk, an
analyst at BTIG.

There's also hope that China Mobile, the largest
wireless carrier in that country, will soon start selling Apple
products, he noted.

Japan's largest carrier, NTT Docomo, recently
started offering iPhones and that helped Apple grab 76% of smartphone
sales in the country in October, according to research firm Kantar
Worldpanel ComTech.

"We would attribute the recent jump [in Apple
shares] to a combination of renewed China Mobile speculation and strong
product positioning heading into the holidays, including much improved
iPhone supply," said Will Power, an analyst at RW Baird.

Gene
Munster, an analyst at Piper Jaffray, checked 60 Apple stores recently
and found that 90% of iPhone 5s models were available on average. That
was up from 31% two weeks earlier and 10% at the beginning of October.

"We
view the improvement in supply as an encouraging sign that Apple has
begun to catch up to demand," Munster wrote in a note to investors.